Microsoft has announced that Word for Windows will now save new files to OneDrive or preferred cloud storage automatically.

Microsoft says that Word for Windows will soon enable autosave and automatically save all new documents to the cloud by default.

If you prefer local storage, don't worry: you can get back the traditional way of creating documents, in which they're not saved to the cloud until you choose. In Word for Windows, click File > More > ...

Microsoft has been increasingly pushing Word users to save documents to the cloud, with the AutoSave function that stores documents in the cloud by default. The software maker has also been using nag ...